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1 Samuel 15:22
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1 Samuel 15:22
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22 (A)But Samuel said:
“Does the Lord delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices
as much as in obedience to the Lord’s command?
Obedience is better than sacrifice,
to listen, better than the fat of rams.[a]
Footnotes
- 15:22 Samuel’s reprimand echoes that of the prophets. Cultic practice is meaningless, even hypocritical, unless accompanied by an attentiveness to God’s will.
1 Samuel 15:22
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1 Samuel 15:22
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22 But Samuel replied:
“Does the Lord delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices
as much as in obeying the Lord?
To obey is better than sacrifice,(A)
and to heed is better than the fat of rams.
Psalm 40:7-9
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Psalm 40:7-9
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7 [a]Sacrifice and offering you do not want;(A)
you opened my ears.
Holocaust and sin-offering you do not request;
8 so I said, “See; I come
with an inscribed scroll written upon me.
9 I delight to do your will, my God;
your law is in my inner being!”(B)
Footnotes
- 40:7–9 Obedience is better than sacrifice (cf. 1 Sm 15:22; Is 1:10–20; Hos 6:6; Am 5:22–25; Mi 6:6–8; Acts 7:42–43 [quoting Am 5:25–26]). Hb 10:5–9 quotes the somewhat different Greek version and interprets it as Christ’s self-oblation.
Psalm 40:7-9
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Psalm 40:7-9
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Footnotes
- Psalm 40:7 Or come / with the scroll written for me
Proverbs 15:8
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Proverbs 15:8
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8 The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination to the Lord,(A)
but the prayer of the upright is his delight.
Proverbs 15:8
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Proverbs 15:8
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Proverbs 21:3
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Proverbs 21:3
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Proverbs 21:3
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Proverbs 21:3
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3 To do what is right and just
is more acceptable to the Lord than sacrifice.(A)
Hosea 6:6
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Hosea 6:6
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6 For it is loyalty that I desire, not sacrifice,
and knowledge of God rather than burnt offerings.(A)
Hosea 6:6
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Hosea 6:6
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